NuLegacy Gold Appoints Adrian Rothwell as CFO

January 6, 2011

January 6, 2010 Reno, NV - NuLegacy Gold Corporation (NUG:V) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Adrian Rothwell, CA to the position of Chief Financial Officer.

Mr. Rothwell brings NuLegacy Gold a broad experience in accounting, finance, regulatory matters and corporate finance, and has served as the Chief Financial Officer for a number of venture mining exploration and development companies. We look forward to his contributions to the NuLegacy team as we continue exploring to advance our two major gold projects in Nevada. In conjunction with his appointment, Mr. Rothwell has been granted a stock option to purchase 250,000 common shares of the Company at a price of $0.32 per share for a period of five years, subject to certain vesting requirements.

Mr. Rothwell's appointment follows the retirement of Mr. James Beairsto who served as the Company's Chief Financial Officer during 2010. We want to thank Mr. Beairsto for maintaining the Company's financial accounts and wish him good health.

NuLegacy Gold Corporation is a Nevada focused gold exploration company. It is financed and operated by a management and corporate governance team that have successfully identified, discovered and developed numerous gold resources. The Company has under option the Red Hill Prospect in the well established and prolific Cortez gold trend and the Wood Hills South Prospect in the emerging Pequop gold trend. Our objective is to discover significant multi-million ounce gold deposits utilizing highly focused exploration programs employing sophisticated techniques for targeting the follow-up drilling to previous exploration successes.

On Behalf Of The Board Of Directors Of NuLegacy Gold Corporation

Albert J. Matter, Chief Executive Officer

For further information please phone 604-638-4959 or contact Albert Matter at albert@nuggold.com or Roger Steininger, COO at roger@nuggold.com; or visit our website at www.NuLegacygold.com

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